Mayim Bialik Quotes

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

I don't look like most women in the industry.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint.

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.

I don't care much about conforming.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I'm a pretty quiet person.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.